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Wed 09 Sep 2009Drugs gangs join forces in prisons, says Langton
MAJOR DRUGS gangs from Limerick and Dublin are joining forces in prisons in a bid to intimidate other inmates and “rule by fear”, the chairman of the Mountjoy Prison visiting committee Stephen Langton said.
The co-operation between gangs in their efforts to dominate some jails had worsened this decade since the emergence of gangs like the McCarthy-Dundons in Limerick and similar groups in Dublin, he said.
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